Campos Mello Advogados
Professional Notice

Founded more than 39 years ago by excellent professionals with legal practice experience, Campos Mello Advogados (CMA) advises Brazilian and global companies in Latin America, Asia, the US, Europe and Oceania. We have legal excellence, global presence, full-service structure and professional management capable of identifying new opportunities and demands to our clients. Click here to view locations.

With offices in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and New York, we operate throughout the national territory and we have the support of an experienced team of lawyers, specialised in different practice areas applicable to various sectors of the market. As a result, we are able to develop creative, innovative and secure legal solutions for each matter and client profile.


Good knowledge of all our clients’ various business sectors is essential for creating valued solutions.Our relatively horizontal structure allows our partners to maintain continuous contact with clients, and to know their track record and market.

Since March 2010, we have been working in cooperation with DLA Piper LLP, one of the world’s largest law firms and located in more than 40 countries across all continents (www.dlapiper.com). This strategic relationship is a differentiator for CMA, allowing us to serve our clients and address their strategic business needs – whether they do business in Brazil or abroad.


OUR OFFICES

Brazilian desks: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

International desks: London, Milan and New York

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FIRM

The firm started in the 1980s, with the foundation of LA Campos Mello by senior partners Luiz Antonio Campos Mello and Bernardo Buarque Schiller. The original firm has gone through mergers and demergers before finally arriving at its current format.


MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE

The firm offers a broad range of business legal services, with emphasis on the following practice areas: antidumping and antitrust; banking, finance and infrastructure; commercial contracts; white-collar, compliance and investigations; corporate, M&A and capital markets; employment, pensions and benefits; energy and natural resources; environmental; intellectual property and data protection; insurance and reinsurance; litigation and arbitration; private wealth; real estate; regulatory; public law; insolvency and restructuring; sports and entertainment; and tax.


MAIN INDUSTRY SECTORS

Over the years, the firm has developed fruitful and long-lasting relationships with Brazilian and international companies operating in the most dynamic sectors of the economy. These include: aerospace and defence; automotive; banking; construction; consumer goods; energy, power and water; finance; healthcare; hospitality and leisure; industrial; infrastructure; insurance and reinsurance; life sciences; media and entertainment; mining; oil and gas; pharmaceutical; pulp and paper; real estate; retail; shipping, transport and offshore; technology; and telecommunications.


Banking, finance and infrastructure

Roberto Vianna do Rego Barros

Jorge Gallo

Commercial Contracts

Carolina Marcondes Sant’Angelo

Fabio Perrone Campos Mello

Fabiano Gallo

Luiz Augusto Osorio


Capital markets

Marcus Vinicius Bitencourt

Roberto Vianna do Rego Barros

Jorge Gallo

Corporate/M&A

Carolina Marcondes Sant’Angelo

Rafaella Chiachio

Fabiano Gallo

Fabio Perrone Campos Mello

Luiz Augusto Osorio

Marcus Bitencourt

Marcelo de Castro Pereira

Employment

Marcio Meira de Vasconcellos

Maurício Tanabe

Energy and natural resources

David L Meiler

Fabiano Gallo

Paulo Lopes

Environmental

Gabriela de Carvalho e Mello

Intellectual property and data protection

Paula Mena Barreto

Insurance and reinsurance

Marcella Hill
Jaqueline Suryan

Insolvency and restructuring

Leandro Rinaldi de Carvalho

Litigation and arbitration

Felipe Hermanny

Leandro Rinaldi de Carvalho

Vinicius Pereira
Domiciano Sá

Patent Law, Mass Litigation and Life Science

Domiciano Sá


Private wealth

Alex Jorge

Leonardo Rzezinski
Victor Kampel


Public Law and Governamental Affairs

Carolina Caiado

Paulo Renato Barroso

Real estate

Bernardo Buarque Schiller

Fabio Perrone Campos Mello

Ivandro Trevelim

Rafael Bussiere


Tax

Alex Moreira Jorge

Humberto Marini

Renato Lopes

Rosana Gonzaga
Victor Kampel

White-collar, compliance and investigation

Ricardo Caiado